Nickel Boys Character Quotes

"I suppose I am. I grew up around you boys, and I know you're just like me, but you had some bad luck."

• Blakeley

• Harper

• Earl

• Hennepin

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I came here to see you, Elwood...A friend told me about an opportunity and I thought of you right off the bat."

• Mr. Hill

• Mr. Marconi

• Harriet

• Mr. Lincoln

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That's my life, ping-pong."

• Clayton

• Turner

• Jaimie

• Big Chet

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I used to think out there is out there and then once you're in here, you're in here. That everybody in Nickel was different because of what being here does to you...But in here and out there are the same."

• Jack

• Jaimie

• Elwood

• Turner

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"It's not like the old days. We can stand up for ourselves."

• Turner

• Burt

• Elwood

• Desmond

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You work on achieving the highest rank of Ace and then you graduate and go home to your families... It's up to you how much time you spend with us... If you mess up, we have a place for you."

• Blakeley

• Hennepin

• Spencer

• Hardee

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I didn't do it. I was playing football--everybody saw me."

• Jaimie

• Desmond

• Turner

• Pete

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Next time I was on a shift, I don't know, I started doing it differently. Instead of joking with them, I was mean..Maybe we'd pretended to be on the same side before and it was all equal, but now it wasn't."

• Jaimie

• Elwood

• Turner

• Griff

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I always drank. Then it was like the more I tried to settle down, the more I got f** up every night."

• Clayton

• Denise

• Elwood

• Chickie Pete

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You know when to say, Yes, sir--which is always--you'll be okay, son. A lot of the boys here got in over their heads. This is an opportunity to take stock and get your head right."

• Blakeley

• Spencer

• Elwood's driver to Nickel

• The lawyer

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3